High-Profile Prosecutor Anders
To Take Post at Wachtell Lipton

By

Peter Lattman The Wall Street Journal Online

Updated Dec. 5, 2005 10:27 a.m. ET

David Anders, the federal prosecutor who won convictions against former WorldCom Chief Executive Bernard Ebbers and investment banker Frank Quattrone, plans to leave the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan at the end of this year for New York law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.

Mr. Anders's move reflects an accelerated trend of government prosecutors jumping to high-paying law firms, many of which have in recent years developed an acute need for white-collar crime specialists. Even without a roster of loyal...